I would argue that perhaps that this may not be as great a movie as I let on, but I am so personally fascinated with both its content and its form that I am giving it an inflated grade. I would argue that Mr. Clooney, director of the unwatchably vapid Gong Show movie, has made a film that is quite unique and quite unorthodox. It is heavily stylized, yet it is ruthlessly minimal. It is grounded in realism, yet the dialogue is uncommonly florid. It is filled with tension, yet has no traditional climax. And a lot of it is just watching old news footage. Many will see this film and ask “Where are today’s Ed Murrows and Fred Friendlys?” They are out there, but they don’t (and probably never will again) have the kind of access and audience in America that they once had. Lament not only this, but of the destruction of the level of discourse in American media, American society today. Even the bad guy — McCarthy — the language, the verbiage, the syntax — think of some of the clowns you work with. You think they’d be able to follow this movie? It’s almost as if it should be listed in the foreign language category — as different from today’s mediaspeak as Shakespeare’s English is to that of the authors of The O.C. A very small film about a very important topic, told in a unique (and, alas, off putting to many) way. Hats off.